Tag Archive | East Prussia
The Massacre at Nemmorsdorf
General William Tecumseh Sherman remarked that “war is hell” as his Army marched through a crumbling Confederacy in his famous March to the Sea. Certainly the Southerners in the path of Sherman’s Army would have agreed as they saw their lives turned upside down and in some cases lost to Sherman’s “bummers” as his western […]
My Name is Ubena
It is not uncommon for a nation to name ships after prominent people. It is a common practice for warships (USS Ronald Reagan, Nuclear Aircraft Carrier) and merchant ships (Edmund Fitzgerald, ore carrier, lost on Lake Superior during a November, 1975 storm. But, how about children named after a ship? It’s happened at least once. […]
Possibly the Greatest Disaster in Maritime History
April 16 1945 The Red Army has stormed into East Prussia and German Pomerania. The Germans who live there are terrified for good reason. The Red Army has been whipped into a revenge mode by the Soviet author Ilya Ehrenburg. Urged on by Stalin the Red Army would embark on an orgy of rape and destruction not […]
